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Balbir Singh Sr.

Indian field hockey player

1923 - 2020

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His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Balbir Singh Sr. is the 343rd most popular athlete (up from 2,113th in 2024), the 478th most popular biography from India (up from 908th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Athlete.

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#2 / 135

Balbir Singh Sr. ranks #2 of 135 Athletes born in India, inside the top 2% of that cohort.

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Balbir Singh Sr. climbed 33,157 places in Pantheon's global HPI ranking, from #74,147 to #41,060.

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Among Athletes

Among athletes, Balbir Singh Sr. ranks 343 out of 13,875. Before him are Charles Dvorak, Olga Gyarmati, František Čapek, Nawal El Moutawakel, Harry Stenqvist, and George Baird. After him are Harry Kerr, Helen Stephens, Oscar Goßler, Ted Meredith, Arne Åhman, and Elżbieta Krzesińska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Balbir Singh Sr. ranks 210. Before him are Nazik Al-Malaika, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Valentin Varennikov, Gerald Götting, Josep Seguer, and Don Adams. After him are James Karen, Misael Pastrana Borrero, Jamshid Amouzegar, Sam Rivers, Rhonda Fleming, and Nora Brockstedt. Among people deceased in 2020, Balbir Singh Sr. ranks 301. Before him are Vladica Popović, Johnny Nash, Christophe, Alfred Worden, Lynn Cohen, and Dino da Costa. After him are Irina Skobtseva, Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Wojciech Zabłocki, Rhonda Fleming, Tengiz Sigua, and Gergely Kulcsár.

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In India

Among people born in India, Balbir Singh Sr. ranks 478 out of 2,312. Before him are Skandagupta (500), Orde Wingate (1903), Baba Amte (1914), Bahubali (null), Rani Padmini (null), and Shudraka (500). After him are Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Charles Gmelin (1872), Zakir Hussain (1951), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), Shashi Kapoor (1938), and Sanjay Gandhi (1946).

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Among Athletes In India

Among athletes born in India, Balbir Singh Sr. ranks 2. Before him is Godfrey Brown (1915). After him are Charles Gmelin (1872), Launceston Elliot (1874), K. D. Jadhav (1926), Fauja Singh (1911), P. T. Usha (1964), Leslie Claudius (1927), Udham Singh (1928), Richard Allen (1902), Deepika Kumari (1994), and Ajit Pal Singh (1947).

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